Open Democracy Quotes

#1. We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.

David Blunkett

#2. Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.

Jonas Gahr Store

#3. Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

Cecily McMillan

#4. The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

Anthony Lewis

#5. 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.

David Harsanyi

#6. A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open or concealed.

Ronald Syme

#7. If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.

Boris Johnson

#8. When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Bill Moyers

#9. But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy.

Tony Judt

#10. In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

Gary Hamel

#11. America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

Mikhail Saakashvili

#12. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#13. A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

Pope John Paul II

#14. Open Everything' is everything
it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

Robert David Steele

#15. The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.

Andrew Lansley

#16. The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

John Dewey

#17. I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Soros

#18. Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

Mo Ibrahim

#19. A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Peter Fenn

#20. But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.

Megan McCafferty

#21. Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.

Gregory S. Prince Jr.

#22. The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

Ralph Nader

#23. In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

Ida Tarbell

#24. We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

Jimmy Carter

#25. My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Jalal Talabani

#26. Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

Marvin Ammori

#27. Our ancestors wholeheartedly sacrificed their lives to fight against tyranny, and we are allowing that very same tyranny to exist! Let us open our eyes!

Yanan Melo

#28. Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy
and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

Shashi Tharoor

#29. Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we say we want in a free and open society. So keep 'em, fund 'em, embrace and cherish 'em.

David Baldacci

#30. That democracy works and will always work, because the people are allowed to think, to talk, and keep their minds free, open, and supple.

Douglas MacArthur

#31. We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Jens Stoltenberg

#32. Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious.

Wilhelm Reich

#33. I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

George P. Shultz

#34. Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

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